But the north Queensland MP, who sent panic through the Labor minority government when he expressed reservations over its lock out legislation earlier this year, warned he had not ruled out a shift to the cross bench.

Shortly after, Treasurer Curtis Pitt announced $60 million for an accelerated works program for Cairns with both Mr Pyne and Barron River MP, Craig Crawford.

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But Mr Pyne has not given up on achieving an inquiry into local government, despite Ms Palaszczuk saying the issue did not come up during their talks last week.

After tabling more than 140 pages of documents in Parliament, Mr Pyne released a statement saying unless there was action, it would not be the last time.

"So far we've tried every reasonable avenue to raise this issue, followed by tabling documents in October, December and now February," he said.

"There will be more in March if we don't get relevant and meaningful strategies happening to address this important matter. We aren't going away. We can't. There's too much at stake."

In response to Mr Pyne's comments, the Local Government Association of Queensland released a statement labelling the MP's actions a "regrettable misuse of parliament".

LGAQ chief executive Greg Hallam said Mr Pyne's campaign ignored the advice of the Crime and Corruption Commission for people "to stop publicly raising claims of wrongdoing involving local governments just ahead of the upcoming council elections".

"I urge Mr Pyne to make his allegations using the proper processes rather than hide behind the privileges of Parliament," Mr Hallam said.

"I note Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has previously urged him to do the same."

"To carry on as he has does no good for his reputation as a parliamentary representative."

Mr Pyne said his office had received a "huge groundswell of contacts, emails, phone calls and documents" from people who "are tired of having their voices ignored, and their situations made worse by inequitable decision making".

"With the volume and seriousness of the material we now have, it would be naive of me to believe that they are all submitted incorrectly and that not one has any issue to respond to in the public interest," he said.

"It would be negligent if I were to pretend everything was going amazingly well in local government land."

In December last year, Ms Trad said her office referred all the information Mr Pyne had provided to the department for review, and was told "that the issues raised amount to localised matters specific to each of the local governments in question and that it does not provide any cogent evidence of systemic problems with the local government system that would justify an inquiry into local government".

Ms Trad encouraged Mr Pyne to "follow the established processes" to ensure any matters regarding local governments were appropriately investigated.